Lot 1399
 
Hungary The Excellent Balance of the Airmail Collection, 1915-1944, approximately 195 flown covers or cards with early airmail services, first and special flights, inflation frankings (3) of 1922-24, glider and balloon mail, philatelic exhibitions, express mail with scarce British framed "Express fee paid 6d" handstamp (2), study of foreign rate Zone system introduced in 1928, 1931 Aeropostale Service to South America (3), 1933 (June 4) Budapest-Gyongäs first flight, 1933 (Aug. 11) CIDNA Budapest-Paris first flight, 1933 Godöllö Jamboree covers (2), 1933 airmail express cover to U.S. with postage dues, 1935 Imperial Airways first flights Budapest-London and Budapest-Amsterdam, 1935 covers to Dutch East Indies and South Africa and card to Fiji, 1936 cover to Hong Kong redirected to Kiungchow, 1939 cover to Argentinian Football Assoc. which was in crash over Hannover with cachet and official seals, and study (21 covers) of wartime airmail rates from 1939-44 with interesting destinations and usages.
Estimate 3,000 - 4,000
AN OUTSTANDING NUCLEUS FOR A DEFINITIVE COLLECTION OF THIS FASCINATING SUBJECT.
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